Cognitive Advantages of Bilingualism - Maria Polinsky

[MarttiSuomivuori]

When I was young the general opinion was that it was a bad thing to teach small children more languages than their mother tongue.
This was based on the false supposition that the capacity to learn was a limited entity.
From what I have learned from my four multilingual children is that there are kids who easily master languages and others who don't.
And a continuum between the two extremes.
I find the ability to think in various languages fascinating and also helpful in many situations.

[zuspanishworld]

"Bilingualism gives people some advantages" ... I loved it!.
Thanks for the video.

[dangdang]

This was so elaborative and informative! Loved it. Thank you so much!

[LukeVilent]

I was once told a story of a mixed Greek-Georgian family living in Germany. The parents did both speak Greek, but for whatever reason kept Greek from the child, asking "Do you need us to translate what was said" when talking to Greek relatives. Once upon a time the parents had an argument which they did in Greek. The child stepped in and asked: "Mom, dad, do you need me to translate what you've just said?"

[ytinformes]

We dont live in an ideal world. And this is how we've been functioning for 9 years now. My kids speak spanish with their mom and french with me. and we know other families following the model with different languages. But this is Montreal. We are used to bilingualism.

[Hetsapa]

Actually many people in China are bilingual growing up speaking a local language as their first language.

[yuryluthersmithtellez]

Hello, Maria
What about languages of programming computer is same situation Just like linguistinc languages

[krystalarthur]

Does anyone know when this video was made?

[joramponi]

Being from Switzerland myself, I felt quite proud hearing that this country seemed to harbour fine multilingual people... but this has been debunked: Swiss people aren't particularly good at languages, despite the three main languages spoken in three distinct parts.
Also, she mixed up languages when talking about a Chinese/English family... which made her point rather funny.
Thanks for sharing anyway. Very interesting.

[thorisomolefe]

I have a friend who speaks only two languages which is still a bit difficult to wrap my head around even though I was later in my life taught to believe that speaking only one or two languages is the norm and multilingualism isn't. I'm glad someone else also sees how normal multilingualism is. Considering how easily the brain picks up languages for a pretty large window of a person's life (well into the teens even), it shouldn't be surprising in any way for people to end up unconsciously picking up at least 2 languages in most parts of the world, even with moderate exposure. I also really believe that there is nothing special about multilingualism let alone bilingualism.

[candytwiggytwist]

As a person living in Switzerland I must say that bilingualism here is a myth. In French and Italian part people speak only French or Italian, as for the German part because of somewhat different education system I guess, they can speak kindda correct English and some French, however even their (Swiss) German it's a dialect of German. So, really not the best example; there are many myths about this country, I believe.

[MlodyFilozofw]

1. No significant advantage 2. bilingual children do have smaller vocabulary in each language. 3. Not especially matter. In the end all that matter is exposure to the languages 4. It still have significant knowledge. 5. smaller voc., (but they catch up quickly). interference from the stronger lanquage

[Povhc]

Trieste study is funny becouse Slovenians in Trieste are

[hamarana]

74K people have watched this video while some joke videos reaches Millions of views... in short, Alzheimer´s won´t disappear soon! ..

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